Linden Highway smash up: 1st day on the job turns fatal for contractor, employee

The contractor who died in the Monday morning accident on the Linden Highway, was on his way to start constructing a new building. His sole passenger, who also perished in the crash, was going to start his first day working with the contractor.
Kowmalram Ramin 40, a contractor of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, and Fitzgerald Authur Carter 29, of Rosignal, West Bank Berbice, died after the car which Ramin was driving, crashed into a minibus along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway at about 5:10h.
Several passengers who were in the minibus along with the driver, were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
Both Ramin and Carter were pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
According to Karen Nichols, her son, Fitzgerald Carter, informed her last week that he had found a job and was going to the capital city, Georgetown to work.
“He wake up in the morning, before he go, he tell me two days before that he have a job, and going to Georgetown to work. Because when he’s here in Rosignol, he is not getting work.
The grieving mother said it was on the same day, Monday, that she was informed about the crash involving the car in which her son left West Berbice.
“I calling my son and I hear he answering but when I listen good, it’s the police saying that it is the police. So I start wondering if there is any problems with him. I asked the police and the police said, no, your son reached with an accident, and he’s dead,” the mother revealed.
Nichols said she did not travel to Linden where her son’s body was. However, she was able to view video footage of her son taken from the accident scene.
“When I saw the video, I burst into tears. I couldn’t take it. His neck broken. His hands broken. His whole one side face damaged on one side, one eye closed down one open and his mouth from here burst in half. His mouth – he haven’t got no teeth at the top, none at the bottom. My God., it isn’t easy. It is not easy,” she cried.
Ramin’s sister-in-law, Mala Evans, said the family learned of the crash from the news and subsequently found out where the body was.
She said Ramin was on his way to start constructing a new building. According to the sister-in-law, the family had no idea who he was taking with him to work.
“I am not sure if there is a worker that lives on that side that he would have went to drop him because he was coming home. He was coming home with a worker,” she said.
According to Evans, the family is still in the dark for lack of information and would like to be able to have closure.
“We actually want to know exactly what happened. We want to know because we would want to have closure. We don’t know exactly what happened to him. We don’t know anything.”
Police had said the driver of the minibus claimed that he noticed the car approaching at a fast rate, and as it approached a section of the road that was under construction, the driver lost control of the car. The vehicle started to skid and ended up in the path of the minibus.
The minibus driver said he applied the brakes but could not avoid a collision.